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 'O abolish ti» »- â€" .», It its favor to^^i known thatST^*! ^t« two h^iS' ** turned the °*" «f the house ,inS otectorate thi^ ""*k^ ^l^e first. wlSr*^ lore than t^o ^J'^V \«f the LongpS' osition to meddkS;' members to Z?V' mber 3, 1654^* 3tsubservirt'iLr^ ion These 'tSi'°SJ L ot one house, hnt t^'i" ory to Cromw^n'^J^J" '^anjin the secondly, Qcd rather than suWâ„¢ about 100 kno^S^i Imission to the thurilvl mt under the new comSi of two houses; hut ^S ause the conunong nf,^ s mongrel house of m».I lent, therefore, for a b^M ad without a house of loSI" ewhat revolutionary and alfa rtunate precedent, so fat, democratic ideas goes. of peers as now ista of the whole peeti '" certain representat^ d and Scotland. There are J ers, exclusive of 13 mkoi who are peeresses in theJ le membership is divided i? ces of the blood, 4; â- arch ies, 22 marquises, 20 earls 28; bishops, 24; baronl representative peers, 16] xtiyepeers,28. Of theseoneieJ ottisli peer and two reprt^ 1 peers are also counted md. Of course, the house ol 3ry a hereditary body, reprJ ;ient aristocracy hut aglaiM of the dignities of the me J iug of a surprise. There an have any halo of antiqnin nly two of the dukes date h^ xteenth century only on only five of the earls ..u. viscounts. The oldest titla i barons but there are Teij lem that are reverently olJ e of the peers of the higha :1 titles of a lower rank;bd lis allowance the house â- * :tty modem body. For iu result of ;i hasty count, we m jarons of England whose titli ith century creation 6 ofthl le marquises 67 of the lords scounts and of course ttf Lrchbishops do not sit in f^ B of birth. )Ot 'ce Man on Top- ;lla Me Ginty, the once prt aighter. She sat lonely m t usly furinshed drawingro- lad not been renewed for i thought of the time, just t she had refused the handj les, the ice man's son. T« inters had knocked her fa^J been light and profits M Arabella Mc Ginty was noj )f a man worth about r lar. She mused on the tn irranaement of wealth, »fl ,e hand of Reginald hecaffli mewasaUttlelessthMtfi nt. "He will never returaJ cannot foigive me leif J him so " -ji .tstepsonthew^lkontoidl ep.inthehall.RegiBald'i drawing-room by ared-b« who hadn't had a centotp ea pale, then^^l'SJ ale agam. ^le coiu l„,edme. But, »to* M not !««'" n,tl«J ,1, h». mde your B»J :e„ my oU fj^jl cottage together. ch ard n a t young ma^'^f^S^'ff*" not told you aS^^e I cold winters ^ffl-^, Lnticemac^^^^^rolli i Mv old man WJ" ^^ lehourchJd^^^^ ice man nas •» lyEaster ^g"" [tended for* *57», Lt of 94:,0^ *ji, tf mechani«» «^|ioti Id sUdes, tn«J5rop«*3 ister gfPf'^JSl«*a lig which »«^(Tr I :^to"-^ ower 0SOFBAHOIEY ^hinff About the Young Ladies «TCTS WHO FOEMTHEBULWABK '^^ CEUELTIES. Bezlment Tfc«t Harlu Witt "' ToriarcdaadlUUed. Trench colonial forces are just now Ti^J^f a smart little campaign in Da- •"^fhv mysterious African land concem- 'vf^KL manv strange stories have been -•*^' '° Sast cual-ter of a century. ral consequence new accounts ^customs and appearance ^.-"^fpahoniey are reaching the outer â- 33' P •'?â-  «,• ]ia? Ions been an almost ccm- TgS5 book! but. now it is to be DEBIKES TO DIE OT BRA21L. •sfiuasaBUiaiaaaiHH id "Ills a kingdom of Africa, on the^ we^st ^or â- "'^hem it 1" on the north and northeast, H.the west it is bounded by Ashantee, itathesourUbytheGulfofBenin, betwesn latitude 6 de- north. High mountain fL varies with the success of its des- ' ,,U^.i.Tnsinwar, and its population i'i at 660,030 to 800,000. '?*ountrj' has been known to Europeanis ,:W beginning of the seventeenth cent- and there have been French, English, l' Portuguese factories on the coast at in- 'â- ^e ua'Oi of Dahomey's sovereigns hare Lnisbeen to begin trading with Euro- tji then to fall upon and massacre them. fiis the destruction of two French "fac- L;.;" or tiaihng establishments, on the ji-Miey coast wliich has brought about the jjflnt struggle. fltekiiig of Dahomey, who is more fero- p:,^Mind I'estial than any of his predeces- [JTis „,jt at all alarmed at the French in- â- ions. i las trotted out his male and female ,, for he has warriors of both sexes, and i given theni a good fight, taking some ioners. liiitliclast battle, however, the French su- e.-;ii: annmieiit told heavily, and among |aeir.;iuhe(l:i of dead picked up after a bay- charge on the black army were many a famous Amazons of Dahomey, the KJien v.';irriays. I Tte king of Dahomey, it appears, com- k-ill tliu marriageable â-  girls in his king- L 10 appear once a year before him. I Ht wstes them in review, selecting some s haroin. others for his gtiards, still isers for liis fa\'oi-it'j mini:jturs and servants, i "he ugly and si;'.\uvny ones he graciously 1 ture b»s to rotuvn t' tiieir parents. fE- ias about 4,000 wives in good years, iii a.Mition to thess. he has in constant iiiiig a body-guard of female warriors, Ifti or 2,0i}(J iu number. I liese hiboriou3 and hardy young women to his liouseiioM. They drill in pri- r.;. a:iil when t'liuy start out for practice a IS rimg iu front of them. Every man f: iiappens to ijj in their neighborhood is p~ expected to turn lus unsanctified gaze ly if he doesuH, and the king hears of it, '.Us him into snuill bits. |Ii.ccoinpositi(m of this feminine army is â-  carious. One-tiiird of the Amazons have bcL'-a married, but two-thirds e: ahvays be maidens. The unchaste are aishedby exeeution. I Iliese woman are said to be stronger and pe: than t!ie male soldiers of Dahomey. p reason probably is that men are kept in Ji a constant state of fear and subjection I; their brutal monarch, -who has entire T»ntrol over their lives and liberties, that ^y are good for nothing. The women, pg privileged characters, like the archers per Louis XL in Fiance, are braver. I IJey are by no means beautiful and in Nbat are terribly cruel. 1 Ijey take soalps from their enemies, as 1, l"'l" ""' "" '" their return from the '-e-Selds they CL-lebrate scalp-dances. I i large number of these Amazons are ^*'I with oM-fashioned muskets, and to ^Jiitts of these muskets they fasten cow- pells with coagulated blood, each shell Rating a man slain in war. ' llaosewho have no muskets are armed p bows and arrows, swords and clubs, • around their waists they carry straw P^^with which to bind their prisoners •'fs they scalp and otherwise torture '"iKe women dress in a rude uniform, posed of a sleeveless tunic of blue and '« native clotli, terminating iu a long W Wow tlie waist, and a skirt falling 7 the knees. tl V.°"n""y wliere the chief executioner I'ghest couit otficial, and where exe- â- ^ are the greatest amusement of the *Si these ferocious Amazons are hero- receive disthiguished honors. 0SI22CTABDBIB0B8 FIOBT. II WasaBattte tvtke Beatk, aK« There Was H* BvrrlTar. The following story was told ns by a stal- wart Indian, inio, having been among the French half-breeds a good deal, had re- ceived from them the French name of Baptiste. He told ua the story as we were huddled round a campfire in the dense for- est on the eastern. side of Lake Winnipeg, frcnn which we and our dogs had been driven by a bitter, blinding, blizzard storm. He said "One summer, long ago, I was with a large party of Indians. We were making a long journey over the rolling prairies, from one place to another. That we might have plenty of meat to eat, two of us were ap- pointed to keep about two days' journey ahead of the company to hunt and to kill all the game we could. " The reason why we kept so far apart was because we had dogs and babies and wo- men in our party, and you know they will all make much noise, so they would scare the animals faraway. "Well, we two hunters kept well ahead. Some days we had good luck and killed a great deal, and then other days we did not kill much. What we got we cached, so that the party could easily find it by the sign we gave them when they came along. Then we would push on, looking for more. "In the rolling prairies the hills are like the great waves of the sea, only some of the hills are about a mile apart, with the valleys between. When we were coming to the top of one of these swells, or hUls, we would creep up very carefully in the long grass and look over down in the valley on the other the remainder of his days among the people 1 side. Sometimes we would see game to shoot he so much loves, and to whose government and often there was nothing at all. When he has sacrificed nearly a half century of his j there was no sign of anything worth stop- life, it is not because he needs anything of i ping to shoot, as we were after big game, themotherthanacontinuationof that esteem having many mouths to feed, we would he has always enjoyed and sympathy in his hurry across to the next hilltop and careful- declining years. 1 ly look over into the next valley. " He therefore hopes that the honored " On© day as we bad passed several valleys chief of the new Government will respect I and had seen nothing that was worth our the desire of the ex-Emperor and use his in- â-  stopping to shoot, we came to the top of a fluence to have an exception in the decree of pretty large hill, and cautiously looked over, banishment recently promulgated made in There was a sight that we shall never forget, his favor that he may be free to return when- j Right down before us, within gunshot, ever he desires. In return for this kindness was a very large grizzly bear and., two big Dom Pedro would present all of his real pro- j buffalo bulls. Well for ns the wind was blow- perty, except his home at Petropolis, to the ing from them to us. They were very angry Pedn*s«flBrtoCive^AIlCIatas to tte Tte*me. A ^ntleman holding a Governmental posi- tion m Brazil and a close friend of Gen. da Fonseca, has just arrived in Paris from Brazil, bringing with him some interesting ne^ He said a letter, undoubtedly inspired by Dom Pedro, but signed by the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, had been received by Gen. da Fonseca thanking him for the con- sideration he had shown the Emperw during the period of the revolution, which the writer states was the most trying in the life of the aged monarch. The writer states that Dom Pedro fully appreciates the kindness and generosity of da Fonseca and regrets that circumstances over which he had no control compelled him to decline the offer of the 5,000 contos the new government, through its chief, made as a condition of his banishment. Further ex- plaining the ex-Emperor's declination, the writer states that, although exiled, Dom Pedro could only with dignity accept the annuity the Constitution granted him that to have accepted the 5,000 contos under the circumstances under which itwas tender- ed would have compromised his dignity and cost him the esteem of his friends abroad. I " Dom Pedro," the letter continues, "is j by no means a bankrupt in spite of the heavy losses he has sustained by the change in Brazil. He has a large income from extensive I investments abroad of long standing, which is more than sufficient to supply his present wants. Consequently, when it is stated that it is the desire of the Emperor to return to Brazil, not as a claimant, but as a humble citze'n, where he could with contentment pass THBBIBTH OFAMlBLiJrD. â- â€¢w a Stow Mi tte* ^mWSEK BEHSDrS 81SAXISL State, and if the Brazilian people insist by actual demonstration, he would renounce all claims to the throne of Brazil and annul all hereditary claims thereafter. This is sufficient proof that the only wish the ex-Em- peror has is to die in the land of his birth in the midst of his countrymen." " While Gen. da Fonseca," says the gentle- man who brings this news, " is disposed to treat the ex-Emperor with the greatest con- sideration and entertains a profound respect for his wishes, he is inclined to regard the letter as a device of his heii-s, who deem it advisable to stoop to conquer. He will pay j no attention to the appeal unless Dom Pedro makes his desire known over his ownsigna- Cost of Living in Hong-.£ong. Last- April a commission was appointed by the Government of Hong-Kong to con- sider the question of increasing the salaries of the colonial officials. It has now pre- sented a report, which contains some inter- esting facts respecting the cost of living in a foreign settlement in the far East. It finds that in the last ten years the cost of living in Hong-Kong has increased 20 per cent, for Europeans and 10 per cent, for Chinese, clothing being .. the only necessary Rent has increased I i i imported articles have risen iri proportion I to the fall in exchange, the cost of medical I attendance has doubled, while the decreas- j ing purchasing power of the dollar is severe- â-  ly felt by those who have families to main- ' tain or educate at home. The commission therefore proposes that official salaries gen- erally should be raised to an amount in looking and were preparing for a big fight. The buffaloes seemed to know the bear was an ugly customer, and he looked as if he did not know how to manage the two of them at once. " After a while both of the bulls suddenly lowered their heads and together they charged the bear. As they rushed at him he quickly arose up oil his haunches, and as they closed in upon him, he seized one of them by the head and neck, with a sudden jerk, and so quickly broke his neck that he fell down as dead as a stone. " The older bi-.ifalo, which had charged at the came time, gave the bear a fearful thrust with his sharjj h.orns, one of which pierced him between his ribs, causing an ugly wound from which the blood soon began to flow. The bear, having killed the other buffalo, tried to seize hold of this one also, but he, havinggiven the bear the ugly wound, quick- ly sprang back out of his reach. He rail off for a little distance, but, as the bear did not follow him, he came back again. There they stood looking at each other, both very angry, but both very cautious. As they kept mov- ing round it seemed to us as though the buff- alo had so come round on the windward Side of the bear that he caught the scent of the blood from the wound. The smell of blood always excites to fury these animals, and so, lowering his head, he furiously charged at â-  The which is cheaper now. from 100 to 150 per cent, for Europeans and j his wounded yet still savage enemy, and 100 per cent, for Chinese houses, ser- bear rose up on his hind quarters to receive vants' wages have increased 10 to 15 per cent. I him, and, seizing him as he did the other, killed him on the spot. " We saw him go from one buffalo to an- other and smell them both, but he did not offer to tear or eat either. We could see that he was very badly wounded from the way he kept twitching his side, from which the blood kept running. It was an ugly wound ... and he was a very sick bear, and so as he current dollars equivalent to their original ' looked so cross we were not in a hurry to let sterling value, taking the dollar at 4s. 6d., him know anything about us. while non-European officials should receive «« imagine, if you can," said Baptiste, an advance of 50 per cent. The report is while his eyes flashed at the recollection of signed by five leading merchants (one being tjjis royal battle, ' how excited we were as About four and a half yeais ago the peo- ple on an island in the sontbun part of die Tonga groupe in the PMific obawved a ter- rible commotion far out at sea. It seemed to them that the waters were boiliiu;, laid that smoke Was rising from the sorrace of the ocean. A little whUe before the waters near their shores had been agitated in lui unaccountable manner, and big waves ro^d in, although there was not much wind stir- ring. A few of the bravest among the people launched one of their sailboats and started toward the scene of disturbance. They halted at a considerable distance from the center of the commotion, but they were near enough to determine accurately the nature of the phenomenon before them. Anew Island wets coming into view. One of the volcanic vents at the bottom of the sea had spread its molten rock and ashes over the ocean bed until the growing mass reached the surface. No longer impeded by the ponderous weight of water, the volcanic debris shot high into the air with a roar that was HEARD FOR MANY MILES, and was sifted over the gi-owing mass. By far the larger' part of it fell to one side of the crater through which the matter was find- ing vent. A very large part of the debris was nothing but ashes, and the prevailing wind carried nearly all of it to one side of the orifice. The eruption lasted for several days, and when it finally ceased anew Island had been added to the Tonga group, and it now bears the name of Falcon Island. « It was the old story, but one that has sel- dom had eyewitnesses to record it. In a similar manner the whole of Iceland was reared above the sea within a recent geolog- ical age by matter brought from the bowels of the earth. Hundreds of Islands, along the lines of volcanic action, stretching far across the Pacific, came to the light in exactly the same way as Falcon Island. This latest of the volcanic islands was the product of a very moderate eruption, and v. e can imagine what gigantic convulsions of nature attended the birtl%f many an island that is a hundred- fold Urger than the new little speck in the Tonga gi-oup. Those islands, which were reared above the sea only by prodigious .and probably long extended eruptions, are likely, even- in these latter days, to be the scene of the most stupendous volcanic activity. The great eruption of Skaptar, a century ago, is be- lievcai to have covered a part of Iceland and the adjoining seas with a larger mass of lava than has poured from Vesuvius and .i5Ctna combined since the burial of Pompeii. It killed one-fifth of THE POPULATION, DESTS,OY£o the arable lands, and frightened the fish from the adjacent waters,- so that for a long tinic the people were in danger of starva- tion. The volcanic vent that gave birth to little Falcon Island is right in line with the great chain of volcanic islands in the Malay Archipelago, where most of the stupendous eruptions of modem times have occurred. It was on Si iibowa, a little east of Java, that an explosion occurred sixty -eight years ago, audible for nearly 1 ,000 miles, and so completely burying a whole province that only twenty-six persons escaped in a popu- lation of twelve thousand. In October of last year Mr. J. J. Lister visited Falcon Island, then four years old, and he has just reported the results of his observations to the Royal Geographical Society of London. The fine-grained dust or ashes, greenish gray in color, of which the island is composed, is very friable, and the Aa V»«eitaltl^ TkM Aee*ai^iskBMBt. The project of bridging Behring Btnita, which is said to be attracting some diacub- sion in Russia, looks, to say the least, a tri- fle premature,. An age, however, whick contemplates spanning the Britirii chaniMl will mt declare impoeaiUe, in ^m engineer- ing sense, the ultimate construction of a highway between Siberia and Alaska^ It im true that while the distuice from the Eng- lish to the French shores is only twenty-tw» or twenty-three miles the distance om tihe American to the Russian is between fifty and sixty. But this streteh is broken by the Diomede islands, lying about midw^ ia in Behiing straits, and well scattered, ^fhree large, wefi-known, and inhabited islands of this group are so situated as to form conven- ient stations in a route from Cape Prince of Wales on our shore to East Cape on the Siberian. They are Fairway Rock, Krusen- stern, or, as the people call it, Ingaliuk, and Ratmanoff, or Imakut, and between the two latter passes the boundary line of the treaty of 1867. The distance of the first from the American shore is hardly a dozen miles, and that of the last from the Russian shore only about twice as much. There is also King of Ukivok island, inhabi! ed, and a survey might disclose uninhabited rock capable of addi- tionally breaking the distance for a bridge route. The depth even in the middle of the straits is said to be about thirty fathoms and, altogether, barring the ice, the engineer- ing problem might not be hopeless, provided there were anything whatever to suggest undertaking it. Of course, nobody proposes to drop scores and himdreds of milUons into such a project, with no returns, in this age of the world. Whoever should take the journey by water to Behring straits would not grudge the feir hours expended in crossing. Perhaps dur- ing the twenty -first century, after Helper's backbone railroad has been built, with a spur running westward to the valley of the Yukon, the then flourishing populations of Siberia and Alaska may clan" or for this me- thod of local rapid transit between their shores. â€" N. T. Sun. POISON FOE AEEOWTIPS. waves, DASHING AGAINST THE NEW "'t raid return of the Amazons from a suc- or a battle against white in- War t"?, '^°*^*' '^ty **'â-  seventy cap- n. ^!"«'l ' ' to carry news to the dead. " •ihr,^ are left to be cleaned by the sj^„ ' *°*1 the skulls are used later on for Cf""' of the king's cottages. '*W?°f '^^P*^"^e3 who have fallen into lively t ^^^ --Amazons are likely to have kfrl-f??^â„¢"'" army is destroyed the r« an """^y's ferocious monarch will T*li!ia.^i ' "' ' reign of bestial cruelty, Ljj^'^^ted for several centuries, will C^l ^^' "-decent civilization.. But I'triH^ ""izons will not give up without %^y°'^i' pies with upper crusts are ejyj-P"' in the oven to bake take ' ;rj a cup, and, with a bit of clean ltd it 1|,, "PPer crusts and rim. When ^e oS ^^^^^^ ^^i'^y 8uiface and will fiirious and interesting addition has ^tlieGfog^2" arts and ^^^ exhibition /?8i^enor gallery, London, in V II L^lie'T.J?!'?^"?? racing jdate* ^^ip a Chinese) and the Chief Justice, who was I the only official on the commission. In an 1 appendix to the report the Commissioners 1 lay it down that the superior English ' officials may reasonably expectâ€" (1) to live in comfort; (2) to be able to go home â-  • when leave is due (3) to marry jit thirty ^4) to be in a position to send their children J to England and educate them there (5) to be able to insure their lives and (6) to save f sufficient to live in retirement, for which j their pensions would in themselves be in- sufficient. Fresh Eowers in Gennany. It appears that from the beginning ef No- vember, 1888, to the end of May, 1889, cut flowers to the value of over £142,773 were sent abroad from Cannes, of which the maj- ority went to Berlin and oiker large towns in Germany. The art of arranging fresh flow- ers artistically is said to be most successfully practised by German lady florists, a large number of whom make a comfortable living by this employment. The trade has during the last few years been particularly flourish- ing, gifts of fresh flowers being very popular with aU classes in Germany. Not only is every family festivity made the occasion of gifts of flowers, but the custom of bestow- ing bouquets or posies on the parting guest or friend is greatly insreaeing. The rich lady takes her magnificent baskets and fanciful bouquets into her carriage as she I takes leave of her friends at the staticm, and the poor woman carries away her pot of • fuchia ormignonette, wrapped m a piece of pink tissue paper and ornamented with a bit of ribb on. Italians in London Now, the Italians are a ^egarioua peoide. They are poor, thifty, social and contented. They herd together in a country m whidi f they find the Luiguage itoangeand the cook- ery »tranger. M^ny of themsettlednew th. wLtK^Hugtaidistrict after tha^bi- "iti tC .^.'"'^^ ^Ua of Lanark, t^i^^.Wbinthetwe S"iUiam the Lion and few ^l Wh in the twelfth century li:^"Uham the Lion and since used challenge racing idate^ iftia •lisle BeUs," also in the eimt ••bell':^-^'?* *^e fact that in earlier It â- Carlisle Belk," ^,B^in"tb«"'eXplfr lint ... th( *^bdr*"'^® the expr«Mim ""He f ""eito '^.^'^^ customary prize givrai Rii»r?' Whence the expressim "W« ' pi-obably hjodita origiB tion«fl888hadclo«d, and when »«am ^ed"Nero" to his irfto»ctions the/m- â„¢mo found mnch of his raw mateml ima become a kmd of sulmrhM, *Uffden. Thebarrel-organbminesshM rSr centre of «tivity. "d"*^â„¢^ are Iwought together, a« MAlmy romO. knows to it«oort. ;, we lay there in the long grass and watehed this great fight. " Then we thought Now if we can only kill that ^v'ounded bear we will have plenty of meat for the whole camp for a good while. But, although i^'e had our guns, we were none too anxious to begin the battle with such a bear as that one so we crouched low and watehed him. It Was Very fortunate that the wind, which Was quite a breeze, blew as it did. He never seemed to suspect that other foes were near. •'After a while he went off a little dis- tance and lay down in the long grass, wbich rose up so high around him that we could not see him. We waited long for him to get up, but as be did not, and we could not stay there all day, we prepared for a big fight with him We put our knives where we could instantly draw them, and carefully examined our guns to see that they were all right. Then we began to crawl down care- f idly through the erass toward him. " My how ourhearts did beat and how every second we expected he would hear us, and the fight would b^^ for life or death. " We got very close to him, although not near enough to see him. Then, as we heard no sound we made a little noise to attract his attention. And then we wanted him to get up, so we could have a better chauce to shoot him. But he did not stir. So, with our fingers on the triggers of our guns, we called out " Mr. Bear, here are enemies rea^y for another battle " Still there was no stir, and so we got up and went to him and found him as dead as the bnflBsdoes. So -witboot firing a shot we had a great quantity of meat." The recital of this story had brought the whole so vividly before Baptiste that he had become very much excited, and he finished with " What would you not have given to have seen that battle! And what would I not give to see another like it " 8( Vennu Broom BzflL Bdle^*H}ao'i yoa^ to t^ broom dzill this wedc, Carrier Carrieâ€" "Nd, Fm very much Meaed for tnl*thi.W«^.-' .^: -T â- : ... ... ' DttllS (â- â- iiiiliiiiilj) ' "Til alii T what time it ilf3Bib,9-i* y«?^v Came-^"WIia* do yoa meaaf BeUeâ€"'Tbe tone tbirt yon are fiivai half-^asffc «i^t satil elereo.' obstruction in their way, have torn off the edges and considerably reduced the island 's area. The largest amount of material is gathered on one side of the crater through which the tide of debris poured and there a cliff, 150 feet high, fronts the sea. Inland the cliff slopes gently down untU it reaches the level of the tongue of land, about a mile in length and only ten to twelve feet above high tide, which forms the rest of the island. It is a bare, dark heap of ashes, which the j ocean rollers are doing their best to bury out of sight beneath the sea. As Mr. Lister walked over the hillside there was a distinct odor of sulphur in the air, and the distant parts of the island were seen through a thin, blue haze. The explorer found that beneath the sur- face the mass was still very hot. At the surface the temperature was 77 two feet below the surface the thermometer regist- ered 85 ® and six feet six inches below, it reached 106®. Notwithstanding these dis- couraging conditions, nature was beginning to put forth efforts to cover THF CJfSIOHTLY HEAP with the luxuriant verdure of the South Sea Islands. Two cocoanut trees were strug- gling upward, but they did not look pros- perous. Specimens of grass and two other plants Wero found, and stranded fruits were scattered hero and there all ready to ger- minitte if they had any encouragement. lli£ o^y living things the visitor saw wero a birct Md a small moth, but he found the buri^ows of some creaturo. Unlesf^ iha tlt» destroys Falcon Island be- fore it hia a chtMce, it is not diificolt to fore- see what W9jf int)' its f storo. On this volcanic debris a hoi$( 6f pait^v animals and plants will find a]%ti;SiA]^^aee; coral reefs will spring from t^' 8hia:lle'«^ waters aroand it and form a hnSlk'^a^f against the Waves the seeds of cobb^tattts and of many shore- loving plants \(^ii df iftj there on the tide decaying vegetation iMiti niix with the vol- canic ashes to from aUttViUm' and another verdant island fit for thirabodb'c^ man' will exist in the southern sea^; la a Qnandaiy. The poet thousht in his bquI, As he Ipokei at the winUr-tdrear, " I will write nke a songdf the Cold aUd' ice, Of those darkMt days of the year." ' Yet ere he had writtoi. a verse He heurd a bluebird sing. So he tore up his gloaniier lay and said. He started with heoctnised up, For Us iDWSQwas Usnt^witk ;the,th«nis, Bm^t*miu^£*otmmmi»jBnMii^a»rXk- ' Toned evtty.Me by dootbte, 'Da'^il 41m weadMreondlvdastoaay WJwl tU kp^pd tiik« wBlt«a««i. How the Plate ImUans Prepared tbe Dead* ly Paste. We are indebted to Mr. Frank Smith of Whitewater for a very graphic accoimt- of the manner in which a Piute Indian pre- pared his deadly arrows. He gathered a dozen or more rattlesnake heads and put them in a spherical earthen vessel. With these he put half a pint of a species of large red ant that is found hereabouts. The bite of this ant is more poisonous than that of a bee. Upon these he poured a bit of water, and then sealed i;p with moist ewth mi a Ud, this vessel. Ho then dug a hole two feet deep into the grouild, ill which he built a 4-oaring fire and put in sohle stbnesi When the interior of the hole and stones Were red hot he made a place in the bottom for the earthen vessel and put it in. About it and upon it he put the coals and hot stones, and upon the top he buUt a fierce fire and kept it up for twenty-four hours. Then he dug out his vessel, and, standing off with a long pole, he disengaged the top and let the fumes escape. He insisted that had they struck his face it would have killed him. The mass left in the vessel was a dark brown paste. To test the efficacy of his'concoction, the Indian with his hunting knife made a cut m his bare leg, just below the ankle. Then taking a stick he dipped it [into the poison and touched the descending blood at the an- cle. It immediately began to sizzle, as if it were cooking the blood, and the poison fol- lowed the blood right on up the leg, sizzling its way until the Indian scraped it off with the knife. He assured our iiiormant that had he allowed it to reach the mouth of the wound he would have been a dead man. UNIVEESAL SUFFEAGE IN SPADT. Progress Wow Blade and the Oatlook For the BUI. The Universal Suffrage bill has been push ed on so quickly of late in Congress that it seems probable it will be approved in the lower house before Easter and in the Seaate before the summer recess in July. BotJi Conservatives and Dissentient Liberals have ceased to obstruct the Reform bill, because they believe that if the Universal Suffinge bill and the budget for 1890-91 are voted tUa Summer Senor Sagasta will no longer have any plausible pretext for postponing the moment when a general election must take place. Now, both Consep"atives and Dissen- tient Liberals are convinced that the Queen Regent will not allow Senor Sagasta to pre- side over the Cabinet which will consult the country under the new electoral l»w, and both hope her Majesty will ask either Senor Canovas del Castillo or some IMssentient Lib- eral statesman, or Gen. Martos or Marshal Martinez Campos to form a Grovemment be- fore that event takes place. Senor Sagasta and the majority of the Lib- erals, Democrats, and Republicans, on the contrary, anticipate that Queen Christina will not only allow the present Parliament to last until its powers expire in May, 1891, but they affect to believe also that the Queen will naturally let the Liberal Party put into practice the electoral law and other democra- tic reforms that it has promoted during the last five years. In this country, where the elections are never sincere and public opinioii powerless agaiiut the powers that be, it is, unfortunately, the Soverign alone who must de(nde if the moment has arrived when it would be unadvisable.to leave the cuts too long in the cold shade- of Opposition. Wliat Mania Hade 0£ Dr; Lancaster, a London physician and surgeon, recently analyzed a man and gave the results to his class in chemistry. The body operated upon weighed 154.4 pounds. The lecturer exhibited upon the platfcam 23il pounds of :«arb^ 2.2 pounds of lime, '!2l3 ounces phoaKAoms -and about me onaoe each of sodium, iron, potaasiBBi. magnesium aad silicon. Besides this solid residne Dr. Lancaster estimated that there br*n 6,5dS onbic foot rf oi^fgm, we^^ung hSl powdip 105,90aoat«o feetlif l^dm- ^gelB^.weitdiiiig 19.4 wnteda, and 08- cahtD ifBOttif difardg Ott ai »tfce.tt|s^%wty. ^Attof mulfH' elSUiOuts 'OdpMi'hsed u i 1 i 'â-  » "1 ;|. â- V- I 1,^ 'n i.^i^m ^itttfiiiiiiliiiiiuiiiiHttMiyk^^ ^- w .c^Mi^i^A